Three Moroccan cargo trucks have been held in Guinea’s capital, Conakry, for more than a month due to a commercial dispute involving Guinean traders and a Moroccan supplier accused of fraud, a source familiar with the case told Hespress AR.
A source close to the owner of the Moroccan transport company said the firm is awaiting a ruling from a criminal court in Casablanca, where it has filed a complaint against the Moroccan supplier on charges of fraud, breach of trust and deception.
The transport company is also waiting for Guinean courts to rule on a complaint filed against the Guinean distributor who is holding the trucks.
The distributor claims the problem stems from the Moroccan supplier’s failure to honor contractual terms, but the source said the continued detention of the vehicles appears to be a pressure tactic.
Earlier, a separate source told Hespress AR that three Guinean companies became embroiled in a commercial dispute with a Moroccan company described as unreliable, over shipments of goods agreed to be delivered in three batches using five trucks in total.
According to that account, three trucks were destined for a main Guinean company, while the remaining two were allocated to two other firms. The Moroccan supplier reportedly received full payment for all shipments.
Subsequent developments, the source said, revealed serious irregularities in the execution of the contracts, leading to the seizure of some trucks and causing logistical and health-related complications.
Earlier this month, the National Union of Road Transport Professionals, affiliated with the Democratic Confederation of Labor, said that two truck drivers and an assistant were being “detained” in Conakry for more than three weeks as a result of the dispute.
However, the source close to the transport company denied that claim, saying the drivers were not being held against their will.
Two drivers remain in Guinea voluntarily while awaiting the release of the trucks, the source said, while a third driver has returned to Morocco.
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